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Various small collections of letters and papers, and some single items, of and concerning men who had served in the army in the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars.
Series
Identifier: MS.15385
Dates:
1815-1938, undated.
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.358- is now Acc.12363.
Dates:
1951-2002.
Verse and prose writings, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings of Domhnall R MacGillemhoire/Donald R Morrison of Scalpay, Isle of Harris.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12363
Dates:
1954-2002.
Volume of printed reports, newspaper-cuttings, and other papers, 1865-1914, collected by Daniel William Kemp, in connection with the discussion of proposals for a National Library of Scotland by the Convention of Royal Burghs in 1902 and Kemp's later efforts to further the object.
File
Identifier: MS.3575
Scope and Contents
Also contains Daniel William Kemp's correspondence, 1903, 1912 (numbers 26-27, 30, 32-34, 40-41).
Dates:
1865-1914.
Volume of Robert Burns’ poems, in manuscript, undated, by an unknown transcriber.
File
Identifier: MS.6302
Scope and Contents
The text appears to have been copied from the subscribers' edition of ‘Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect’ (Edinburgh, 1787). Between pages 36 and 37 is inserted a newspaper cutting giving an explanation of two lines in the second stanza of 'Death and Doctor Hornbook'.
Dates:
[1787, or after.]
Volumes of piobaireachd of Pipe-Majors Ronald and Alexander Mackenzie and Charles Scott.
Series
Identifier: MSS.22123-22127
Dates:
2nd half of 19th century.
Women`s Social and Political Union postcard album.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4546
Scope and Contents
Including cards, photographs, newspaper cuttings and printed and manuscript papers.
Dates:
circa 1900-circa 1914.
Working copy of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’ (Edinburgh, 1813) by Sir Robert Douglas, revised and corrected by John Philp Wood: including revised printings of certain pages, extensive annotations by Wood, and related material, including some of later date, also concerning peerages.
Series
Identifier: MSS.1813-1815
Scope and Contents
The material described here would appear to relate to further revision by John Philp Wood of his revised and corrected edition of 1813 of the ‘Peerage of Scotland’.
Dates:
19th century.